{"id":6863,"date":"2015-05-12T00:52:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T07:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=6863"},"modified":"2015-05-27T01:11:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T08:11:45","slug":"misidentifications-of-jack-ely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=6863","title":{"rendered":"Misidentifications of Jack Ely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the passing of <strong>Jack Ely<\/strong>, former singer of <strong>the Kingsmen<\/strong>, a lot of folks shared a common video of the Kingsmen, featuring what they thought was Jack singing&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XL20vPIXs-A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XL20vPIXs-A\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/XL20vPIXs-A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What many of these people didn&#8217;t realize was that person lip synching was not Jack, but <strong>Lynn Easton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rolling Stone.com<\/strong> also initially misidentified Jack in a Kingsmen photograph.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rolling-stone-Jack-Ely-collage.jpg\" alt=\"rolling-stone-Jack-Ely-collage\" width=\"700\" height=\"1128\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rolling-stone-Jack-Ely-collage.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rolling-stone-Jack-Ely-collage-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rolling-stone-Jack-Ely-collage-635x1024.jpg 635w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rolling-stone-Jack-Ely-collage-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rolling-stone-Jack-Ely-collage-400x644.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Luckily, the error was eventually corrected the next day.<\/p>\n<p>This week, <strong>Entertainment Weekly<\/strong> continued the trend, using a photo of Lynn Easton for Jack&#8217;s obituary.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/entertainment-weekly-JackEly-obit.jpg\" alt=\"entertainment-weekly-JackEly-obit\" width=\"771\" height=\"1050\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/entertainment-weekly-JackEly-obit.jpg 771w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/entertainment-weekly-JackEly-obit-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/entertainment-weekly-JackEly-obit-751x1024.jpg 751w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/entertainment-weekly-JackEly-obit-110x150.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/entertainment-weekly-JackEly-obit-400x544.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just for future reference, here&#8217;s a photo of the three founding members of the Kingsmen.<\/p>\n<p>if you need an assistance identifying a photo with Jack, or would like to obtain a proper photo of Jack, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?page_id=196\">drop me a line, OK<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/kingsmen-identified.jpg\" alt=\"kingsmen-identified\" width=\"649\" height=\"443\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/kingsmen-identified.jpg 649w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/kingsmen-identified-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/kingsmen-identified-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/kingsmen-identified-400x273.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>P.S.  Big thanks to <strong>Buck Munger<\/strong> for first spotting the Entertainment Weekly snafu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE, TWO OR THREE WEEKS LATER:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The printed edition of the Rolling Stone continued to perpetuate their original mistake of their webpage, completely ignoring the comments on their website and my two separate emails (two separate RollingStone.com accounts) pointing out their error.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rolling-stone-ely-obit-print.jpg\" alt=\"rolling-stone-ely-obit-print\" width=\"960\" height=\"393\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rolling-stone-ely-obit-print.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rolling-stone-ely-obit-print-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rolling-stone-ely-obit-print-150x61.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/rolling-stone-ely-obit-print-400x163.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the passing of Jack Ely, former singer of the Kingsmen, a lot of folks shared a common video of the Kingsmen, featuring what they thought was Jack singing&#8230;. https:\/\/youtu.be\/XL20vPIXs-A What many&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jack-ely","category-kingsmen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6863"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6949,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions\/6949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}